open up the scriptures, read them, talk about them, and make it really fun.

What's up, guys? Welcome back to Five Minute Fatherhood. So buddy mine Joe asked on, I think it was

homeroom, our online community, what is one simple Bible passage slash story slash parable

that has produced good conversation for kids two to six

years old. I love this question. And I think that, and there was lots of great examples,

and we could kind of go through the whole list. But I wanted to kind of level up from this particular

question, which is one passage, to basically, one way to think about how to engage

young children in the Bible is to train them using the Gospels. You know, you can use,

like, a gospel, you could start with something, probably the gospel that's the most simple

for children and has the most action in it versus maybe long teaching passages and stuff is the gospel of Mark.

And so for a lot of people, I say, hey, you can go through the gospel of Mark with your kids.

And if you think about what our mission is as believers, as disciples, Jesus says in Matthew 28 that we are to teach the disciples

we're making to obey everything that he has commanded. So the basic mandate of discipleship

is to walk through the gospels and teach disciples to obey all of the things that Jesus commanded,

which are couched primarily in stories. Some people have taken, you know, Matthew 28, that mandate

to teach obedience to the commands of Jesus and have broken down the Gospels into, you know, these 30 commands,

which is helpful, but I don't think it's as helpful as going through the Gospels, because that is

the reason why the Gospels were written. They were written to help us make disciples. They are our

disciple-making manuals, and they're really good, and they're really good for kids. And so what

you can do is if you want to just,

and just take very short snippets, you know, one little story from the Gospels, and you can read it,

you can have your kids read it. A lot of times the pattern that we'll use is we might read it to our

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